The Larry Schreiner Story–A Cop Hero Turned Broadcast Newsman Prowls the City’s Streets by Night in a Tireless Quest for Crime and Disaster
Tag: Vol. 20 No. 45
Issue of Aug. 22 – 28, 1991
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Graceland/Here We Are
GRACELAND and HERE WE ARE Acme Arts Company at Talisman Theatre At first these two one-acts seem to ridicule women. Here We Are, adapted from a Dorothy Parker short story, is about a woman married less than three hours who keeps picking silly fights with her new husband as they ride the train to New […]
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Slacker
Richard Linklater’s delightfully different and immensely enjoyable first feature takes us on a 24-hour tour of the flaky dropout culture of Austin, Texas; it doesn’t have a continuous plot, but it’s brimming with weird characters and wonderful talk (all of it scripted by Linklater, though it often seems improvised). The structure of dovetailing dialogues calls […]
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Secondhand Emotion
MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY at Ravinia August 14-17 It hasn’t been fashionable in certain circles to like Martha Graham for a good 10, 20, even 30 years. To the postmodern mind she’s too literal, too oriented toward narrative, insufficiently interested in movement for movement’s sake. Of course now that she’s gone–she died last April, at […]
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Men Are Such Fools
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK Next Theatre Company’s Next Lab For a man who enthused so insistently about the purity, innocence, and even “divinity” of children, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson–aka Lewis Carroll–put plenty of dark streaks in his writings for the little buggers. Commenting on his fantasy classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll described […]
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New Horizons Ensemble/Mwata Bowden & Sound Spectrum
The most intriguing feature this year at Ravinia’s annual A.A.C.M. offering may be the contrast between two remarkable drummers. Reggie Nicholson, with Mwata Bowden’s quartet, is a master of free motions, of subtle interplay using a wide dynamic range, of infectious rhythms and organically growing swoops of sound; Avreeayl Ra, with New Horizons, is all […]
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The Spurt of Blood
THE SPURT OF BLOOD Saratoga Company at Bailiwick Repertory In 1925 Antonin Artaud wrote a very strange play, translated variously as Jet of Blood or The Spurt of Blood, filled with odd characters, absurd plot twists, unspeakable acts, and the sort of unstageable stage directions you’d expect from a man who had spent 9 of […]
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Sun-Times Whiffs on Sox Stadium Lease/Young and Old, Black and White/Bob Page Updated
Sun-Times Whiffs on Sox Stadium Lease The enterprising Sun-Times found the happy story but not the whole story about the spinning turnstiles at the Sox’ new ballpark. “Illinois will earn more than $3.5 million this year from a Comiskey Park lease that critics had charged was a giveaway from the state to the White Sox,” […]
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Crass Consciousness
BARTON FINK *** (A must-see) Directed by Joel Coen Written by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen With John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, Tony Shalhoub, and Jon Polito. I’m not one of the Coen brothers’ biggest fans. I walked out of Blood Simple, their first feature. The main sentiment I took […]
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Fitzpatrick’s Forte
To the editors: What a welcome surprise to discover a story about Tony Fitzpatrick on the cover of your August 2 issue. I’ve been aware of his presence and his work for a long time and I’ve always been curious about his background. One of the things I’m most curious about wasn’t covered in the […]
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Calendar Photo Caption
Every couple of months, art collector and dealer Aron Packer strips his Rogers Park apartment bare and puts on a show. This weekend he’s exhibiting work by Lucy Ruth Wright Rivers along with pieces from his own collection of folk art. Describing her work, Wright Rivers, a 1991 MFA graduate of the School of the […]
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AP: Associated With What?
To the editors: So the Associated Press is going to bat for us all (“War Stories,” Hot Type, August 2) against the Pentagon’s restrictions on the press? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The AP–let’s see; isn’t that the agency that picked up a CIA feed, ran it around the world out of […]
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The Straight Dope
How much U.S. currency (cold cash) is in circulation around the world? Who decides how much to print? With the government continually borrowing money, shouldn’t lenders be broke by now? Where do they get the money to keep lending out, especially when they know that none of it will ever be paid back? –F. Lucre, […]
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Anatmomy of a Rock Critic
To the editors: I’m shocked and stunned by the Bill Wyman-Jae-Ha Kim critic’s war currently taking place in the pages of your fine weekly. While I agree with Wyman in principle, I must admit he does come off as whiny and somewhat vindictive in his critique of Ms. Kim’s writing [July 19]. Could he be […]
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The City File
“Soon after I started liking it here, …I began adopting the habits of a native Chicagoan,” writes native Philadelphian Dennis Rodkin in New City (August 1), “such as spitting in the empty el seat next to me so I could get some privacy…. Once I’d begun to feel that Chicago really was my home, I […]